Tamil 99 is a keyboard layout approved by the Tamil Nadu Government. The layout, along with several monolingual and bilingual fonts for use with the Tamil language, was approved by government order on 13 June 1999. Designed for use with a normal QWERTY keyboard, typing follows a consonant-vowel pattern. The arrangement of the characters allow for fast and simple typing for users familiar with the script. See also Tamil keyboard InScript keyboard References External links Tamil99 Extended Keyboard Help Tamil99 Web Keyboard Web-based input with Tamil99 Tamil input methods Keyboard layouts Indic computing